Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-08-11

That o er her brow did hang:
She, smiling said: you're like gun,
You go off with a bang"
At which pressed her lips and cried:
For punning you've a knack;
But now I'm like fisherman.
Igo of with a smack"
H. Wilson was over from Burlington,
Colo, Saturday last.
Ed Teal went to Bird City Friday. He
says it is quiet in that burg.
Scott Peyton, of Gallup, N NJ. is here
visiting his brother, G. W Peyton.
Watermelons are brought into Colby
now by the wagon load. They.sell very
fast.
Hawkeye suffered in the hail storm
Thursday last. The hotel and some 9th
er buildings were seriously damaged.
DR.. s. 3. Lutgen was in Colby Satur-
day. He reports that the hail storm did
considerable damage in the northeast
part Of the county, unroofing many
buildings.
The reason why the mail is late at Col
by some days and not other days, is,
because the mail is not ready until 8 am.
while the time is a. m. when it should
be ready.
The BelOit Gazette ceased last week to
issue as semi-weekly owing to failure
Of patronage in advertising 1t will con-
tinue as formerly prior to April 81. as
weekly.
Messrs. Hampton & Tate have bought
the drug store of Douglas & Walker The
store had large trade. and it will be in
creased by the new firm. who are well
and favorably known in Colby and Thorn
as county.
Prohibition in Texas was defeated by
at least $4,000 The ants claim 100, 900.
At any rate it is showed under in grand
shape Party lines did not figure at all.
jeff Davis used his influence on the side
of whisky, and of course it tells in Texas
in no uncertain way. Senator Coke was
on the side of the ants, and Senator
Reagan on the side of the pros.
Jas.S. Warden came up from Russell
Springs the first of the week. Mr.. War
den will see that the work on the First
National Bank is pushed. He tells us
that the three brick stores north of the
First National will be finished also this
fall. making solid brick block. There
will be at no distant date four brick cor
ners on Fifth street. Colby's bricks give
great confidence in the town. Mr.. War
den is bound to make Colby boom.
From the Rocks County Record We
learn that ''the Santa Fe graders are hard
at work in Osborne county. In an ex
ceedingly short time work will commence
in Rocks, and if the bonds are properly
voted on the diagonal line We are assured
that the work will soon be started in this
direction. The Santa Fe does things up
in hurry when it once begins" Look
out. for they will soon be west in Sheri-
dan county.-Hoxie Sentinel.
And of course it will go through Colby
on its way to Denver.
We trust that those who get their mail
at the Oakley post Office will bear it mind
that it is not the fault of the publisher of
the CAT that they do not get the CAT
promptly. We sent.them to our Oakley
subscribers Thursday morning, but they
were returned unopened in Friday mail.
The post master at Colby tells us this oc-
ours frequently. OF course we cannot
help the matter, only by referring to the
post office department. We are sorry it
occurs, but the blame cannot be laid to
our door If the mail remains in the Oak
ley post Office three or four days, and
longer sometimes. We do know such .
post master would not be tolerated long
in any other place but Oakley. BE seems
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